Prop 20: Manda Recommends - NO

-          Here’s the deal, and I mean, literally, the deal: During one of the ever-so-fun budget negotiations, this rumor started floating around the Capitol. The Governator was pulling weight with certain Republicans to get them to sign onto the budget deal in exchange for the Dems allowing certain “reforms” to be ( Read more... )

CAUTION: STRONG LANGUAGE  (not mine)

It seems hard to believe that in California of all places, the bastion of wacky-treehugging-gunhating-elitist-marxist-communist-socialist-progressive-liberals, that something like this could happen. But it does. It happens every day. Once you hear this, ask yourself, are you *sure* state politicians get paid TOO ( Read more... )

Recently, I've become more and more annoyed and upset by what I can only describe as outright lies and fairly blatant biases on the part of news outlets and so called "journalists" in the media. Media bias? What? I know… shocking. I realized as I started to sit down and write a full-on rant that my problem isn't just with the media in its many ( Read more... )

Go Madame Speaker!

Oh, California... *sigh* and btw - the clip title says the Senate's asleep, but all the video is from the Assembly. I can name off the members for fun if anyone wants :-D

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This coming from a straight, white, rich man? Perfect. I love him so much right now.

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My Fellow Americans,

It's that time again, and boy has it been a long time in coming. Once again, it's Election Day! And in honor of Election Day, I'm going to repost my perennial "don't vote - don't complain" Public Service Announcement - with a few addendums.

Now, I could go on and on about the patriotic duty to vote. I could mention the men and ( Read more... )

(I'm not sure how many people on my Friends List are from CA, but I thought I would post this anyway. It may be relevant for those of you living in other states that have propositions on the balllot as well.)

A number of people (okay, like 2, but hey! That's a "number") have called or asked about how or whom they should vote for come November 4th. ( Read more... )

It isn't often, but every once in a while something happens to make me feel good about being an attorney. In a world where lawyers are vilified as being money-suckers and only out for themselves, it's nice to remember that without lawyers none of the following would have happened ( Read more... )

So, as I've mentioned before, occasionally I will depart from my fic postings to delve into something else. Usually this comes in the form of recommendations for movies and books and other fics, but today I'm about to break one of the cardinal rules of polite conversation and talk about all three of the big no-no's: Politics, Religion, and Sex.

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